US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide

[Monroe]

The radioactive debris from Japan has been starting to show up on the West Coast in 2013 ... have to think about swimming, eating seafood and who knows what else.

US Government Orders 14 Million Doses of Potassium Iodide

Paul Joseph Watson

January 1, 2014

http://www.infowars.com/us-government-orders-14-million-doses-of-potassium-iodide/

The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February.

According to a solicitation posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website, the DHHS asks contractors to supply, “potassium iodide tablet, 65mg, unit dose package of 20s; 700,000 packages (of 20s),” a total of 14 million tablets. The packages must be delivered on or before February 1, 2014.

... more at the link but this is from article ...

"Last month it was revealed that 71 U.S. sailors who helped during the initial Fukushima relief efforts are suing the Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) after they returned with thyroid cancer, Leukemia, and brain tumors as a result of being exposed to radiation at 300 times the safe level."

another article ...

Radioactive Debris in Pacific Ocean: Fukushima Radiation is Tearing up the West Coast of the US and Canada

By Ethan A. Huff

Global Research, October 28, 2013

NaturalNews

Particularly on the West Coast of the U.S., a multitude of strange animal deaths, high radiation readings and other recent anomalies suggest that the Fukushima disaster is far from over. It is simply ludicrous, in other words, for anyone to suggest at this point that these Fukushima woes are dwindling, as fresh evidence suggests that quite the opposite is true.

A recent report by Michael Snyder over at TheTruthWins.com highlights 28 signs that the U.S. West Coast is still being torn up by nuclear radiation from Fukushima. Many of these signs include strange illnesses and mass deaths among sea creatures and other animals, as well as high radiation readings from dozens of monitoring stations.

“Every single day, 300 tons of radioactive water from Fukushima enters the Pacific Ocean,” writes Snyder about this one major sign. “That means that the total amount of radioactive material released from Fukushima is constantly increasing, and it is steadily building up in our food chain.”

Radioactive debris mass the size of California still impacting West Coast

Another obvious sign is the recent mass migration of radioactive debris the size of California across the Pacific Ocean. BBC News in the U.K. reported last year that literally millions of tons of radioactive debris had begun traveling across the Pacific Ocean, and that some of it had already impacted Hawaii and even the West Coast.

There has also been a series of strange animal deaths recently, including masses of sea lions, sockeye salmon and other sea creatures washing up on the shore. Many of the polar bears, seals and walruses observed along the Alaska coastline have also been found to have major fur loss and open sores, both of which are indicative of radiation poisoning.

also ...

Fukushima Debris "Island" The Size Of Texas Near US West Coast

Tyler Durden on 11/06/2013

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-11-06/fukushima-debris-island-size-texas-near-us-west-coast

[ROTS]

All of that from Japan? Why can't they give up the Nuclear reactor, or start utilizing that death star satellite, that was suppose to be built? Japan has got enough crap from the rest of Asia, they get all of China's air problems and then they create more problems for everybody living west of the Amerikana. Polar Bears?

Japan, has been wrecked up since USA dropped da bomb, on them back in WWII. Just to show how corrupted their constructions agents are, many structures, asides for the plant, went down in an instant. It is an horror story in itself.

Now the west coast, is messed up, what is worst, is how you can't even tell if somebody is infected because they might be wearing a wig, or they shave often.

We got enough radiation from wireless, cell towers, why do we need more? The whole nation no the world,, needs to go back to 1991.

Edited January 1, 2014 by ROTS

[Tripredacus]

****ushima Debris "Island" The Size Of Texas Near US West Coast

Confirmed this is caught up in the swear filter for some reason.

[Monroe]

OK ... I was puzzled for a few minutes after I posted this ... why the whole word was not printing out and decided it was being "filtered" somehow. I thought a moderator would look into it or at least confirm the problem.

thanks

[Monroe]

Some further news from California about possible radiation ... like before some words may be "filtered" after I post this.

Has Fukushima’s Radioactive Wave Already Hit California?

http://www.infowars.com/has-fukushimas-radioactive-wave-already-hit-california/

Health officials confirm spike in radiation on San Francisco beach but have no answers

Paul Joseph Watson & Alex Jones

Infowars.com

January 6, 2014

Predictions that Fukushima’s radioactive ocean plume would hit the west coast of the U.S. sometime in 2014 may have already come to pass, with a new video showing Geiger counter readings of background radiation at a beach in San Francisco over five times the safe level.

Days after a YouTube video emerged showing background radiation at a Coastside beach reaching over 150 micro-REM per hour, Health officials in San Mateo County confirmed the spike but said they were “befuddled” as to its cause.

However, officials dismissed the possibility that the readings could be linked to Fukushima radiation reaching the west coast despite forecasts by experts last summer that radioactive particles from Fukushima would reach U.S. coastal waters in 2014.

The video shows a man measuring radiation readings at different spots on a beach south of Pillar Point Harbor. Background radiation in the areas immediately surrounding the beach are normal, but once the man approaches the water itself, the radiation spikes to at least 500 per cent safe levels and the Geiger counter’s alarm goes off.

The man behind the video claims that on his previous visit to the same beach, radiation readings were 13 times the safe level.

“In the following days, other amateurs with Geiger counters began posting similar videos online,” reports the Half Moon Bay Review. “The videos follow other alarming news last month that starfish were mysteriously disintegrating along the West Coast, a trend that has not been linked yet to any cause.”

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and state Department of Public Health are now investigating the cause of the radiation and more information is expected to be released this week.

While officials will almost certainly downplay the situation in order to prevent panic, it’s important to remember that genuine public health crises are virtually always preceded by government duplicity.

TEPCO and the Japanese government have repeatedly been caught lying in their efforts to downplay the scale of the Fukushima disaster. In September it was confirmed that radiation readings around the power plant were 18 times higher than previously reported by TEPCO. After a tank leaked 300 tonnes of toxic water in August, groundwater radiation readings at the plant soared to 400,000 becquerels per litre, the highest reading since the nuclear accident occurred in March 2011.

EPA officials in America also lied in the weeks after 9/11 when they told rescue workers and the general public that the air at ground zero was safe to breathe. According to insiders, EPA officials knew that the dust in the air was laden with asbestos but chose to cover up the truth, leading to at least 20,000 ground zero workers suffering debilitating illnesses and numerous deaths.

Mainstream media outlets have also largely toed the line on Fukushima despite overwhelming evidence of a cover-up of the true scale of the crisis by Japanese authorities. Former MSNBC host Cenk Uygur was told not to warn the public about the danger posed by the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear plant during his time as a host on the cable network.

Concerns that the federal government is preparing for some form of nuclear emergency have heightened after it was revealed that the Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 14 million doses of potassium iodide, the compound that protects the body from radioactive poisoning in the aftermath of severe nuclear accidents, to be delivered before the beginning of February.

also related to the above story ...

Health officials respond to beach radiation scare

http://www.hmbreview.com/news/health-officials-respond-to-beach-radiation-scare/article_8c7e7fb0-74de-11e3-9c9d-001a4bcf887a.html?mode=story

Friday, January 3, 2014

Mark Noack

An amateur video of a Geiger counter showing what appear to be high radiation levels at a Coastside beach has drawn the attention of local, state and federal public health officials. Since being posted last week, the short video has galvanized public concerns that radioactive material could be landing on the local coastline after traveling from Japan as a result of the 2011 meltdown of the Fukushima Daiichi reactors.

Government officials say they are looking into the video shot on Dec. 23 and performing their own sampling of the beaches, but they have found no indication so far that radiation levels were hazardous.

“It’s not something that we feel is an immediate public health concern,” said Dean Peterson, county environmental health director. “We’re not even close to the point of saying that any of this is from Fukushima.”

First posted last week on YouTube, the seven-minute video shows the meter of a Geiger counter as an off-camera man measures different spots on the beach south of Pillar Point Harbor. The gadget’s alarm begins ringing as its radiation reading ratchets up to about 150 counts per minute, or roughly five times the typical amount found in the environment.

Counts per minute is a standard way for Geiger counters to measure radiation, but it does not directly equate to the strength or its hazard level to humans. Those factors depend on the type of radioactive particles and isotope.

Nonetheless, the video went viral online, gaining nearly 400,000 views in the last week.

... more at the link.

[Monroe]

Just asking if any MSFN member actually owns a Geiger Counter? For many years I have wanted to get one thinking it might come in handy one day for checking food and just about anything, especially if a person has a family and just wants some first hand knowledge of what is going on. I feel the government (any government) can't be trusted to give us all the facts unless they get caught up in a lie or cover up, like Japan did with it's people. I can't believe an amateur would discover radiation on CA beaches ... the agencies have known for some time that this radiation wave was heading for the western coast of the US and Canada and they have to have been checking constantly on it's progress. They have satellites that can track radiation anywhere and they may have been dropping floating radiation detectors into the ocean between here and Japan to chart everything ... but it takes an amateur with his own Geiger Counter to alert people about something. Who can say if the radiation is from Japan or another source but it seems to be there.

Something very strange about all this ... don't alert the Sheeple ! ... a good case for people to get a Geiger Counter of their own before they are "outlawed" and taken off the market. At one time you could buy a Geiger Counter from Sears ... it was in their catalog but it was a large hand held device, just like you see in old 1950's science fiction films ... today they are more compact and easier to carry around.

There are many on the market but which is the best one to own ... anyone here own what they think is a top quality device?

...

[jaclaz]

Maybe a dosimeter would be more handy than a Geiger counter.

Personal electronic ones should be available for around 500 bucks.

jaclaz

[Tripredacus]

I recommend that some *better* sources be had for the information. I've been using this site for the past couple of years.

http://enenews.com/

PS: Make sure to keep politics out of this topic.

[jaclaz]

I recommend that some *better* sources be had for the information. I've been using this site for the past couple of years.

http://enenews.com/

BTW, you cannot link to (say):

http://enenews.com/harvard-website-media-blindly-reports-tepcos-false-radiation-levels-says-****ushima-official-press-wont-report-truth-its-still-scary-in-tokyo-people-move-away-due-to-hotspots-e

as even if you spell that name correctly, (without the c between the u and the k) the communist censorship word filter of the board intervenes to change:

F u k u s h i m a

to

****ushima

in the link, even in code-box:

http://enenews.com/harvard-website-media-blindly-reports-tepcos-false-radiation-levels-says-****ushima-official-press-wont-report-truth-its-still-scary-in-tokyo-people-move-away-due-to-hotspots-e

BUT shortening the URL works:

http://enenews.com/harvard-website-media-blindly-reports-tepcos-false-radiation-levels-says-

PS: Make sure to keep politics out of this topic.

Oops , let me rephrase :

as even if you spell that name correctly, (without the c between the u and the k) the communist censorship word filter of the board intervenes to change:

F u k u s h i m a

to

****ushima.

jaclaz

Edited January 7, 2014 by jaclaz

[Monroe]

OK ... always good to have more "news links" ... better chance that one link will have the truth while the others dish out the fluff! I've added the link to my list. This came from the link ... maybe it's getting into the food supply ... "We see radiation from ****ushima in soils in Southern California, especially our desert regions” — High concentrations in seaweed prevented harvest this year — Also found in cattle and chicken feed.

Hope I didn't cross the line ... I did say "any government" since I doubt that any are completely truthful to their people. We are probably on our own.

jaclaz ... I have been seeing the word dosimeter mentioned in my searching around. I think I have found a reasonably priced Geiger Counter with mostly positive reviews (a few negative) and two of those positive reviews were by engineers who don't seem connected to the company.

One said this ...

For an engineer working in the field, the standards for radiation detector are more demanding than those of "an amateur scientist" and this Geiger does the job well. I was somewhat surprised how accurate it is for what I have paid for it.

Basically, it will measure up to 999 micro Siverts per hour. This is the same range as Inspector+ from SE International, or Rad Alert geiger counters. PRM-8000 range is slightly higher (about 2milliSv) while Monitor4 measures up to approximately 500 micro Sieverts per hour. The antique alarm clock or radium hands usually measure under 5 microSieverts per hour, well within the range of our most basic model. It is hard for me to imagine a consumer product that would measure over 1milliSieverts per hour.

Case in point: effective dose of inhalation of 1 mg of pure natural Uranium is mere 0.2 milli-Sieverts, which is well within the range of this Geiger.

The biggest issue is not just the range but also precision over the wide range of measurements. This is where RD-1212 impressed me the most and why I gave it 5 stars. Ever since I got it, I have been cautiously testing it in the field and around the plant where I know what the readings should be, and this little guy was accurate within mere 10% off our industrial equipment and often enough right on the spot. This is clearly a professional piece of equipment. Thank You guys!

.... I'm still checking around and I have a second e-mail to the company, waiting for a reply to my questions. They answered my first e-mail very fast.

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Edited January 7, 2014 by duffy98

[Monroe]

Monday night I came across a radio show that I had never heard of before called Ground Zero, what good timing on my part, they had a guest talking about radiation and Geiger Counters. The show is available for mp3 download, which I just did. It's free at this time ... most of those shows charge or you have to be a paying member to listen to a previous show. I missed the first 20 minutes and I was listening to a station in NY that kept fading in and out.

The guest Miriam German talked about a web site that is still being put together ... the goal is to have volunteers across the country (US) maybe also Canada and the world who have Geiger Counters to take readings for "hot spots" to warn people or give them a heads up on a problem area. This may also work with seafood and food in general, not sure ... this is all in the early stages. These volunteers are doctors, teachers, clerks, truck drivers ... just ordinary everyday people feeding their readings into the web site. There already seem to be readings posted from various places.

I think I can post about the program that was actually aired Monday night ... I will do so but a moderator may think otherwise. I will post the new web site that is still under construction.

Ground Zero (radio program)

http://www.groundzeromedia.org/

RadCast.org ... new web site, some of what they do

# Monitor radiation levels across the country 24X7

# Field test monitoring of marine life (Seaweed, Starfish, Fish, etc.)

http://www.radcast.org/

This was the show from Monday night:

1/13: Nuclear Unclear with Miriam German

While it may not yet be time to panic, we shouldn’t kid ourselves into thinking we aren’t going to see effects from ****ushima and future disasters. This future is going to force us to become citizen scientists and active biological researchers in order to survive. Tonight on Ground Zero, Clyde Lewis welcomes Miriam German of RadCast.org to take a reading of our situation that is ‘Nuclear Unclear‘!

The broadcast ... mp3 download. There is a Download arrow to the right of Save To Favorites.

http://soundcloud.com/groundzeromedia/2014-01-13

Edited January 15, 2014 by duffy98